Explorations (Louis Bellson album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Explorations
Studio album by
Released1964
RecordedFebruary 10–11, 1964
Los Angeles
GenreJazz
Length32:35
LabelRoulette
R-52120
ProducerTeddy Reig
Lalo Schifrin chronology
Between Broadway & Hollywood
(1963)
Explorations
(1964)
New Fantasy
(1964)
Louis Bellson chronology
The Mighty Two
(1963)
Explorations
(1964)
Are You Ready for This?
(1965)

Explorations is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin and American drummer Louis Bellson recorded in 1964 and released on the Roulette label.[1][2] It was the first album composed entirely by Schifrin and features themes that would later be used in the television detective series Mannix.[3]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Lalo Schifrin

  1. "Variations" - 3:19
  2. "Primitive" - 5:27
  3. "Explorations" - 5:15
  4. "Cycles" - 2:15
  5. "Ostinato" - 6:24
  6. "Etude for Tympani and Strings" - 5:10
  7. "Toledano" - 4:45
  • Recorded in Los Angeles on February 10 & 1, 1964

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lalo Schifrin website accessed March 7, 2012
  2. ^ Discogs album entry accessed March 7, 2012
  3. ^ Payne, D. Lalo Schifrin discography accessed March 7, 2012